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Updated: May 5, 2025

Again and again these boats, roped together and tugged by a little launch, went back and forth from the S.S. Canada to the "Turk's Head Pier"-a tiny wooden jetty built by the Engineers. I asked one of the straw-hatted men of the Naval Division, who was casting off the painter, what the place was like "Sand an' flies, and flies an' sand nothinkelse!" he replied.

John Hargrave - At Suvla Bay : Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war.